AustLit

'A story about a young man sent to a small country town as a school teacher. His time is taken up learning to cope with his new teaching job. He has been haunted since childhood by a dream of a beautiful house. Escaping into the country from work, he discovers his dream house in ruins. He sets out to discover the history of the house and the reason why it haunts him in his dreams. He continues to visit the house and tries to do some repair work on the house itself and its wild neglected garden. He is interrupted in this work by an old man, a retired sheep shearer, who is employed to keep an eye on the house. They become friends and the young man then becomes involved with some of the townspeople in his search for the history of the haunting house...(Publisher website)